Piano
Biography:
Florian Hoelscher studied with Robert Levin, Michel Béroff and Pierre-Laurent Aimard in Freiburg, Paris and Cologne. He also received decisive impulses from Peter Eötvös. After early competition successes, he developed an extensive concert career as a soloist and chamber musician in most European countries and in the USA.
He is a founding member of the Stuttgart ensemble ›ascolta‹, with which he is present at all important festivals for contemporary music. He also received frequent invitations from Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Aventure and ›Musikfabrik‹. As a soloist he has worked with conductors such as Peter Eötvös, Christopher Hogwood, Joseph Swensen, Lothar Zagrosek and Stefan Asbury; his chamber music partners include Jean-Guihen Queyras, Chen Halevi and Christian Hommel.
With solo programs he was a guest at festivals such as Présences (Radio France, Paris), Eclat (Stuttgart), Klangspuren (Schwaz), Agora (IRCAM, Paris), at the Bartók Festival (Szombathély, Hungary), in the large broadcasting hall of WDR Cologne, at the Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris) and at the Tonhalle Zurich. He made guest appearances as a soloist at the Salzburg Festival, the Heidelberg Spring and the Darmstadt Summer Courses. The CD includes piano works by Robert Schumann, the first complete recording of ETA Hoffmann's piano sonatas and songs by Dieter Schnebel, as well as the recording of Marco Stroppa's Miniature estrose (stradivarius). Florian Hoelscher teaches piano and chamber music at the music academies in Lucerne and Trossingen.
Albums:
Works for piano – Works flute and piano:
